Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:12:35 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 04:40:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > Eh? Rebuilding twice in a row would remove the files, regenerate them,
> > remove them, regenerate them. I can't see how the second regeneration
> > would fail if the first one did not.
>
> The problem is that the regenerated files are not identical to the
> original files and you simply get a diff which finally makes different
> Debian source packages depending how often you start the build process.
>
Err, no. If debian/rules clean removes some files, they'll never show
up in a diff anywhere.
Cheers,
Julien
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